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WEEKLY MASS SCHEDULE
| | * | Saturday (Vigil)
| | | 4:00pm Confession
| | | 5:00pm Mass | | |
| | * | Sunday
| | | 8:00am Mass
| | | 11:15am Mass
| | | 1:00pm Spanish Mass
from Memorial Day Weekend
to Labor Day Weekend,
a Sunday 9:30am Mass
is celebrated. A LATIN Mass is celebrated
on the 2nd & 4th Sundays:
- from Sept. to May
at 9:30am. - from June to August
at 6:00pm.
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PLENARY INDULGENCE FOR THE YEAR OF PRIESTS 
Pope Benedict XVI grants priests and faithful Plenary Indulgence for the occasion of "The Year for Priests", 19 June 2009 to 19 June 2010, and has been called in honour of Saint Jean Marie-Baptiste Vianney, The Cure of Ars, patron of parish priests.The year begins with the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus – June 19, "a day of priestly sanctification", when the Pope will celebrate Vespers before the relics of Saint Jean Marie-Baptiste Vianney. The Year ends in Saint Peter's Square, in the presence of priests from all over the world "who will renew their faithfulness to Christ and their bonds of fraternity".
The means to obtain the Plenary Indulgence are as follows:
(A) All truly penitent priests who, on any day, devotedly pray Lauds or Vespers before the Blessed Sacrament exposed to public adoration or in the tabernacle, and ... offer themselves with a ready and generous heart for the celebration of the Sacraments, especially the Sacrament of Penance, will be granted Plenary Indulgence, which they can also apply to their deceased confreres, if in accordance with current norms they take Sacramental Confession and the Eucharist and pray in accordance with the intentions of the Supreme Pontiff. Priests are furthermore granted Partial Indulgence, also applicable to deceased confreres, every time they devotedly recite the prayers duly approved to lead a saintly life and to carry out the duties entrusted to them. (B) All truly penitent Christian faithful who, in church or oratory, devotedly attend Holy Mass and offer prayers to Jesus Christ, supreme and eternal Priest, for the priests of the Church, or perform any good work to sanctify and mould them to His Heart, are granted Plenary Indulgence, on the condition that they have expiated their sins through Sacramental Confession (Mon-Sat: 7:30-7:55am and Saturday: 4:00-4:45pm) and and prayed in accordance with the intentions of the Supreme Pontiff. This may now be done on the first Thursday of the each month from July 2009 through June 2010 and on the closing day of the Year of Priests, June 19, 2010. The elderly, the sick and all those who for any legitimate reason are unable to leave their homes, may still obtain Plenary Indulgence if, with the soul completely removed from attachment to any form of sin and with the intention of observing, as soon as they can, the usual three conditions, "on the days concerned, they pray for the sanctification of priests and offer their sickness and suffering to God through Mary, Queen of the Apostles". Partial Indulgence is offered to all faithful each time they pray FIVE Our Father, Ave Maria and Gloria Patri, or any other duly approved prayer "in honour of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, to ask that priests maintain purity and sanctity of life". An indulgence is defined as "the remission before God of the temporal punishment due for sins already forgiven as far as their guilt is concerned." The first thing to note is that forgiveness of a sin is separate from punishment for the sin. Through sacramental confession we obtain forgiveness, but we aren't let off the hook as far as punishment goes. Indulgences are two in kind: partial and plenary. A partial indulgence removes part of the temporal punishment due for sins. A plenary indulgence removes all of it. This punishment may come either in this life, in the form of various sufferings, or in the next life, in purgatory. What we don't get rid of here we suffer there. |
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